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A novel in poetry that opens with direct reference to CT, and proceeds as a series of tales by various kinds of people: historical tales, migrants' tales, artists' tales, etc. The volume includes a Preface by John Kinsella in which he reports that…

Historical fiction that follows the life of Alice Perrers an includes Chaucer as a minor character and friend of Alice. First published in 2009 in London (Century), without the subtitle.

The artistry of Chaucer's poetry is influenced by his historical role as a "negociis regis" employed to argue, persuade, and "embrace opposing doctrines" in the name of the king. Chaucer's skill as a negotiator can be seen in TC, wherin Criseyde,…

Focuses on the occupatio that addresses Emelye's ritual ablutions in the temple of Diana. Discusses the way Chaucer identifies different modes of seeing--all-inclusive panoramic vision vs. the privileged view of the voyeur--with the Knight's staging…

Explores how "the problems and operations of poetry and the poet are repeatedly raised into the consciousness of the reader" of Chaucer's poetry, adding a "peculiar dimension" to engaging with his works by requiring a "deliberate assent to their…

Davis examines ramifications of the interplay between graphic design and text in William Morris's Kelmscott edition of Chaucer, arguing that the consequent mediation is a precursor to Walter Benjamin's theorized divorce of mechanically reproduced art…

Complete census of all known extant copies of the Kelmscott "Chaucer." Explores late nineteenth- and twentieth-century book history, and provides anecdotal and bibliographic details of the "Chaucer."

The essay describes the personal and social conditions that led to the 1896 production of the Kelmscott Chaucer by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Robinson compares preliminary sketches and final woodcut illustrations. Adapted from Robinson's…

Considers the "temporal hybridity" of the Kelmscott Chaucer and the challenge it poses to classification. Neither strictly functional book nor decorative object, the Kelmscott mirrors the Middle Ages' abjectness and highlights medievalism's purchase…

Compares the aesthetic experiences of confronting two illustrated editions of Chaucer as reproduced in facsimile, arguing that the Eric Gill edition of CT provides greater pleasure to a modern user than does William Morris' edition of Chaucer.

A version of GP for children, with the pilgrims imagined and illustrated, verbally and visually, as puppies.

Facing-page edition and translation of Nicholas of Lynn's "Kalendarium," a source for Astr (as Chaucer tells us) and for the astronomical observations in three passages of CT (MLP, NPT, and ParsP). Based on Bodleian Library MS Laud Miscellaneous 662,…

Referred to by Chaucer in Astr, Somer's "Kalendarium" may have been a source for a number of the poet's astrological references. This facing-page edition and English translation of the Latin "Kalendarium" includes descriptions of the manuscripts;…

Describes Chaucer's uses of "soth," "sothly," "verry," "verrily," and "lye" as epistemic markers, contrasting the density of his usage with that found in present-day English to distinguish between medieval and modern worldviews as, respectively,…

Treats the Judgment of Paris motif in the ancient world, as history, and as allegory. Includes an appendix on the Judgment of Paris in medieval art.

An edition of the fourteenth-century French text with English translation, introduction on Machaut and his influence on BD, and critical bibliography.

Four chapters and an epilogue. Chapter 1 establishes the background for exploration of "the late medieval legacy of early Christianity's appropriation of the Hebrew scriptures." Chapters 2-3 assess Dante's "Commedia" and "Sir Gawain and the Green…

Brown discourages emendation ("dreary refinements") of Chaucer's meter, arguing that "broken-backed" or "Lydgatian" lines recorded in good manuscripts are likely to be Chaucer's own. Metrical variation within Chaucer's dominant patterns can have…

Examines ways in which the dreamer's journey in HF parallels his summary of the "Aeneid," identifying verbal echoes as well as similarities in plot and detail. Emends traditional punctuation of lines 109-13 to reinforce the parallel.

Much of the scholarship on Chaucer's "Adam" has focused on identification. But "many of Chaucer's shorter poems are genre pieces in which personal statement emerges by way of a treatment of conventional matters; a traditional type of poem is…

Explores representations of the mother-in-law as a figure of Jewry and the synagogue in Western literary tradition. Although MLT overtly poses the Orient as the malevolent Other through the Sultaness, it also suggests in veiled ways that Jews…

Delany explores the "imbrication" of life and art in PrT and the expulsion of Jews from France in 1394. She gauges Chaucer's contact with Jews and describes the conditions under which Jews lived in fourteenth-century France, specifically the results…

Explores the symbolic value of the gems, their colors, and their settings (rings and brooch) in TC, discussing the moral implications referred to in medieval lapidaries.

A study of the "reiteration, instability and changing valence of the Jewish image as inscribed in medieval English books," focusing on four generic narratives: the Jew of Tewkesbury, the Marian miracle of the boy singer, the cult of Robert of Bury…

MerT is both fabliau and romance, both realistic and allegorical. Janus was god of gates and of marriage beds. January falls under Aquarius, associated with old age; May, under Gemini, was associated with youth. The name of the sacred Roman gate…